Biographical note

Cecilia Alvstad is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Oslo, Norway. In 2011 she is a guest researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her main research interests are translation of Latin American literature in Scandinavia after World War II and translation of children’s literature. In 2007–10 she led a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council on translations of Latin American, African, and Arabic literatures in Sweden.Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English at Stockholm University, Sweden. Apart from his academic focus on southern African literature, Brazilian literature, postcolonial theory, and theories of world literature, he freelances as a literary critic and is also a novelist. His most recent academic book is Transnationalism in Southern African Literature (2009).David Watson is Associate Professor of English, with a specialisation in American literature, at the Department of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on literary modernism, American literature, and transnational studies, and is currently working on two projects: a book-length study of transnational connectivity in nineteenth-century America entitled The Hauntings of America, and a research project entitled “Locating the Ends of US Imperialism.”